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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1933
Page
5
A serialized romance by Frances Parkinson Keyes features Lady Blanche and relationships on a rural farm setting. The story unfolds with social mores, romance, and drift into personal choices affecting family and community life.
Philip Starr an aspiring Boston architect travels to Vermont where he falls for Blanche Manning. In Hamstead he stays with Mary Manning and learns of the Manning family’s Countess Blanche curse. Paul Manning’s dissipation and Mary’s heartbreak frame a tale of love, gossip, and superstition.
Mary and her younger brother Moses share a quiet, comforting moment after a broken blue bird cup spills water in the wallacetown home. Moses offers his beloved Spotty to Mary and she finds solace in his unselfish act, easing her sadness and guiding them toward sleep.
Paul endures harsh gossip and subtle shunning as townsfolk debate his past and Mary Mannings future. Rosalie derides him while Doctor Noble questions his engagement, revealing palpable social pressure and loneliness beyond his supposed liberty.
The piece traces how package medicines emerged from humble doctors and family remedies to industrial production, highlighting pioneers' risks and the shift to laboratories and machines. It also surveys the impact of eating habits on health, noting Julius Klein's view on hunger shaping history and Columbus era dinners.
A reflective piece contrasts historic and modern dinner habits. It notes a once scarce luxury turkey now cheaper, and recalls 1850 Christmas meals with many meat courses and few vegetables.
An advertising feature touts crushing Bayer Aspirin tablets in water to gargle for sore throat relief within minutes. It claims aspirin reduces infection and inflammation, eases pain, and is heart safe, urging readers to buy Bayer products in boxes or bottles.
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